Funds will be available to enable doctoral candidates to complete field
research for their dissertations. Generally awards will not be available for
projects focusing primarily on Western Europe or countries where the United
States has no diplomatic representation. Financial provisions include basic
stipend computed on the cost-of-living in the country where research is to be
conducted; cost of round trip jet economy air fare for award recipient only;
baggage allowance, if justified; dependents allowance for accompanying
dependents based on cost-of-living in host country; project allowance to be
utilized for the purchase of expendable materials, services, and supplies,
tuition payments to foreign institutions, and local travel expenditures; funds
to secure health and accident insurance.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher
education may apply.
Beneficiary Eligibility: Candidate for Doctoral
Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship must: (1a) Be a citizen or national of
the United States; (1b) be a permanent resident of the United States; or (1c)
provide evidence from the Immigration and Naturalization Service that he or
she is in the United States for other than a temporary purpose with the
intention of becoming a citizen or permanent resident; (2) be a graduate
student in good standing at an institution of higher education who, when the
fellowship period begins, has been admitted to candidacy in a doctoral degree
program in modern foreign languages and area studies at that institution; (3)
plan a teaching career in the United States upon graduation; (4) possess
adequate skills in the foreign language(s) necessary to carry out the
dissertation research project.
Credentials/Documentation: This program is
excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-87.
APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS:
Pre-application Coordination: The graduate dean of a
college or university or his or her representative will be responsible for
accepting, screening, and forwarding through the Department of Education's
Application Control Center to the Advanced Training and Research Team those
individual applications which meet the institution's technical and academic
criteria and the program's eligibility requirements. Candidates for
dissertation research fellowships apply directly to the institutions at which
they are enrolled in a Ph.D. program, not to the Department of Education. This
program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. This program is excluded
from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-102.
Application Procedure: Institutions should
request application materials from the Advanced Training and Research Team.
Students should address requests for application forms to the office of the
graduate dean or his or her representative at the graduate schools at which
they are enrolled in a Ph.D. program. This program is excluded from coverage
under OMB Circular No. A-110.
Award Procedure: The Advanced Training and
Research Team will make initial selection and recommendation of fellowship
recipients with the advice of a panel of specialists in foreign language and
area studies and comments by U.S. embassies and binational commissions in the
proposed countries of research. Selections are subject to review and final
approval by the presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign
Scholarship Board. The grant covering successful graduate students is made to
the applicant, i.e., institutions of higher education.
Deadlines: Generally, the last week in October or
first week in November of the year preceding the year of research. Exact date
is announced in the Federal Register.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time: About 200
days.
Appeals: Not applicable.
Renewals: Not applicable.
ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS:
Formula and Matching Requirements: None.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance: Awards are
made for at least 6 but not more than 12 months.
POST ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Reports: Fellows: Terminal reports through the
grantee institution no later than 90 days after the termination date of the
award. Institutions: fiscal reports.
Audits: Fiscal records of institutions subject to
Education Department audit at any time within 5 years after close of the
fiscal year in which expenditures are made.
Records: Records bearing on receipt and
expenditure of funds to be made available for inspection by the Department for
3 years after close of fiscal year in which expenditures are made if
departmental audit has occurred by that time, until audit or for five years
following the end of the budget period in which the grant expired (whichever
is later) or until resolution of any outstanding audit questions.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION:
Account Identification: 91-0201-0-1-502.
Obligations: (Grants) FY 01 $3,489,000; FY 02 est
$4,150,000; and FY 03 est $4,580,000.
Range and Average of Financial Assistance:
Average fellowship in fiscal year 2001 was $27,000.
PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
In fiscal year 2001, 129 fellowships were awarded to graduate students.
REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE:
Final regulations published in the Federal Register on December 19, 1983.
INFORMATION CONTACTS:
Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.
Headquarters Office: Advanced Training and
Research Team, International Education and Graduate Programs Service, Office
of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202-5331. Contact: Karla Ver Bryck Block. Telephone: (202)
502-7632.
Web Site Address: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/Professionals
EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:
Imagined Democracies, Nocturnal Communities: The
Production of Political Space in Cote d'lvoire; Strategies for Survival:
Women, Power, and HIV Risk in Uganda; Spirit Possession in Northern Brazil;
The Exus of Umbanda Forest Conservation and Common Property Management in
Oaxaca, Mexico; Continuity and Change: Cooperatives in Contemporary Rural
China; Strangers in their Homeland: The Ethnic Adaptation of
Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants and the Japanese Sociopolitical Response
Towards Co-management; Conservation, Indigenous Communities and the Philippine
State Disease; Social Change and Gender Among the Huli of Papua New Guinea;
Language and Identity in Ukraine: The Politics of Interaction Propaganda vs.
"Stalinization" of the Soviet Press, 1922-1930; Commemoration of
Nation and Class in Two Palestinian Villages; Educating Ethnicity: Cypriot
Conflict and the Revision of History; Education and Youth Culture in Kerala,
South India, Trekking Tourism, Traditionalism and Development in a Nepali
Village; Women's Political NGOs in the Emerging Democracy of Ghana; and
Community Building among Indonesian Transmigrants: The Challenges of
Ecological Sustainability and Social Harmony.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS:
Quality of proposed project (maximum 45 points);
qualifications of the beneficiary (maximum 45 points); and priorities (10
points) if announced in the Notice of Closing Date.
